From Edward Blyth [2–30 March 1867]
Summary
Discussion of origin of domestic sheep races. Some comments on the yak and the wild ancestors of the llama and alpaca.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2–30 Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5337 |
To A. R. Wallace [24 June 1867]
Summary
CD now acknowledges that the sometimes very great sexual, i.e., ornamental, differences in fishes offer a difficulty to the view that females are not brightly coloured on account of the danger to propagation of the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [24 June 1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5404 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
From A. C. L. G. Günther [late December 1867 or early January 1868]
Summary
The Cyprinodontidae family of fishes exhibits sexual differences as remarkable as any in reptiles or birds [Descent 2: 7, 9–10].
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late Dec 1867 or early Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: B75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5734 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [April 1867]
Summary
Has sent JDH’s Genera plantarum to Fritz Müller who finds it useful and offers to supply JDH with Brazilian plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5514 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Fritz Müller, 4 March 1867 . CD had offered to send Fritz Müller a copy of the first two parts of Hooker and George Bentham’s Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83) in his letter of 23 August [1866] ( Correspondence vol. 14). See letter to Fritz Müller, 22 April [1867] and n. 12. …
To A. R. Wallace 26 February [1867]
Summary
ARW’s explanation of protective value of conspicuous coloration is ingenious.
CD still holds to sexual selection with respect to beauty in male butterflies.
Sexual selection and the races of man.
Expression of emotions is another subject he plans to include in his essay [Descent].
Asks ARW to suggest an observer in Malay Archipelago to whom he might send queries [on expression].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 26 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5420 |
Matches: 1 hit
letter | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |